13 things about Allen, Texas’s Patrick Crusius

Patrick Wood Crusius is an American criminal from Texas, United States. He was a gun owner.

Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at Texas Walmart offered plea deal to avoid death penalty https://t.co/JjYoxOvhlA pic.twitter.com/4cnEXSwr1Y

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BIOGRAPHY

Crusius was born and raised in Allen, Collin County, Texas. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. His father Bryan Crusius is a therapist.
2. His mother Lori Crusius worked as a hospice admissions nurse.
3. He is Emily Crusius‘s twin brother.
4. He is Blake Crusius‘s younger brother.
5. Austin Crusius is the son of his father and his father’s first wife Kathleen Crusius.
6. He once worked at a movie theater but he was forced to leave because he was having violent thoughts.
7. In 2011, his mother filed for divorce against his father.
8. In 2014, his father released a memoir titled “Life Enthusiasm: A Path to Purpose Beyond Recovery“, which gave details of his father’s drug and alcohol abuse for decades.
9. In 2016, he registered to vote as a Republican.
10. In June 2017, he graduated from Plano Senior High School in Plano, Texas.
11. From 2017 to 2019, he attended Collin College in McKinney, Collin County, Texas.
12. In 2019, he fatally shot 23 people and wounded 23 others in El Paso, El Paso County, Texas.
13. On July 27, 2024, he turned 26.

TIMELINE

2019

• In June 2019, he legally purchased a GP WASR-10 semiautomatic rifle and 1,000 rounds of hollow-point ammunition online.
• On June 27, 2019, his mother called the Allen Police Department because she was concerned about him owning an AK-type firearm.
• Just before 10:40 a.m. on August 3, 2019, he opened fire at a Walmart store near the Cielo Vista Mall on the east side of El Paso, killing 23 people and wounding 23 others.
• On September 12, 2019, a grand jury in Texas indicted him on capital murder charges.
• On October 10, 2019, he pleaded not guilty to the charges.

2020

• On February 6, 2020, he was charged with 90 federal charges, which are 23 counts of a hate crime involving an attempt to kill, 23 counts of use of a firearm during a crime, 22 counts of committing a hate crime resulting in death and 22 counts of use of a firearm to commit murder.
• On February 12, 2020, he made his initial appearance in federal court and waved his federal bond hearing.
• On July 23, 2020, he pleaded not guilty to 90 federal charges and waived his arraignment on those charges.

2022

• In February 2022, federal prosecutors asked for a June 2023 trial date while his defense team requested a trial start date of March 2025 or later.

2023

• On July 7, 2023, he was sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences, which he will serve at a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, USA.
• On February 8, 2023, he pleaded guilty to 90 federal hate crime and weapons charges before U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama in a courtroom in El Paso.
• On September 25, 2023, he agreed to pay $5,557,005.55 to families of the victims.

2024

• On September 12, 2024, he attended a hearing about a possible schedule leading to his trial but he did not speak in court.

2025

• On March 24, 2025, El Paso County district attorney James Montoya informed the family members of the people he murdered that he would not face death penalty.
• On April 21, 2025, he will attend a plea hearing before 409th District Judge Sam Medrano.